I don't get. Why do people come off that they have to buy a Nintendo game, but then a game like Wii Music comes out and it's like. "Nope I won't buy your game". As if it's an insult to all the Nintendo games they purchased priot. It's not like anyone has to buy any of Nintendos game. Heck I don't even think many Nintendo games are that good. Does anyone still seriously play Animal Crossing GC? I'm sure some do, but most of you have probably moved on.

Or my theory, he is a narrow-minded melodramatic megalomaniacal moron. =P

Modify only from what I can tell. To gather the data for which notes will be played, there must be a backing track to play from. It seems you can almost modify a song to the point where it's unrecognizeable though. I've only seen that in a negative way though as people butcher a song, but I hope the opposite is true and something twisted and unrecognizeable can sound good.

IGN's desperate search for what makes Wii Music so special:

In all honesty, that video entertains me - it just makes me laugh, watching Matt's desperate attempt to make the game look as bad as possible. Watch his epic combos at 1:00 and 1:16!

Ok this looks much better than previous demonstrations I've seen and I'll give it a try when it comes out. I still think drunk/high young people everywhere are gonna go crazy over this.

I thought it was almost amusing the way Matt phrased that in his write-up. Almost as if he's expecting to click on something and there's a hidden world of wonderment Nintendo had been hiding from everyone. He doesn't seem to understand that it's only as deep as he can be.

Matt C. would never say. It would take at least two paragraphs from him to express that. =P

It took him a whole page to vent his anger at Nintendo for not pimping Metroid Prime 3 enough. (Ironically one day before the Metroid Prime 3 Preview Channel was released)

Comparing the new demonstration video with IGN's butchering video just tells me that Matt either had absolutely no idea what the hell he was doing or was intentionally trying ot make it look bad.

They should have added Matt to the e3 ensemble performance. He would have fit right in.

Enthusiast gamers do not want Wii Music to succeed. It stands as an insult to all that the long-time customers of the industry have come to accept as the norm: it's immediately accessible, it has no inherent ties to gameplay in the usual sense of the term, the difficulty is based on natural human traits like balance and sense of rhythm instead of reflexes and rote memorization, and it has no scoring system to speak of; you're the one who decides how good or bad you are, not the game. It is, in short, the embodiment of everything that the Wii series has been aspiring to be thus far.

To sum it up, of course review sites are going to be slamming it. Guess who runs them? The very sorts of people who don't want Wii Music to succeed, of course.

Looks like it'd make a good rental.

I can't see myself playing it daily for a week or two, but I could see it be amusing for maybe a weekend of fun.